Matt McCaffrey Uncovers Frank Fetter's Lost Book

Matt McCaffrey Uncovers Frank Fetter’s Lost Book

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09/22/2026 Robert P. Murphy Matthew McCaffrey

This week, Bob talks with professor Matt McCaffrey about a soon-to-be-published, never-before-seen manuscript by Frank A. Fetter, surveying the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill. Dr. McCaffrey explains what Fetter saw in Ricardo, the labor theory of value, and the classical economists on the eve of the marginalist revolution, and why this lost book is a rare window into a first-rate Austrian mind.

Related:

Frank Fetter, Capital, Interest, and Rent: Essays in the Theory of Distribution: Mises.org/HAP564a

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